The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-12-17
THE LAMEETATION OF THE GOOD
DR.. OUARLES.

DIR. QUARLEs.
DEAR INTELLIGENCER:-l am not
RIGHT sure that YOU will welcome 4
communication from a preacher who
believes in and advocates prohibition.
Your zeal for the defeat of the effort to
stop the sale of intoxicants, and yonr
zeal against those earnest II brave
| ministers of the gospel who sought to
save the county from the curse OF
alcoholism, were alike a great surprise
and pain to me. Your continued Jubl-
lation over the triu,nphs OF whisky Ill
various parts of the country makes me
doubt whether my Old friend, the
| steadfast advocate and the consistent
| exemplar of that which Is pure II
lovely and of good report,l is still sitting
upon the tripod and directing the
policy of the paper. :,
While | regret the defeat OF prohlbl-
ton in the county, with the sentiment
that manifestly prevails there, 1t Is
evidently best that the election resulted
as it did. IT it be true that a majority
of over two thousand deliberately
wish to perpetuate the sale OF WHISKY,
with all its attendant results, then the
law would have been a dead letter had
it been enacted .It,as ! believe, this is not
true, but the people were deceived by
. false issue of personal liberty, theh
also it is well that the result Is as IL Is,
for the law could not have been Gu
forced. A law must be the expression
of the Judgment and moral conviction
of the community where 1t Is iii force.
1t is doubtless true that the lntelll-
gence and the conscience of the county
is convinced that drunkenness is a
great evil, that the saloon is the chief
cause of drunkenness, and that some
thing ought to be lone TO reduce this
evil to the minimum. 1t is also doubt
less true that the intelligence and the
virtue of the county has a large major
ity over the ignorance and the vice.
The trouble is the good people are d.
vided among themselves as to the prop
er mode of controlling and lessening
the evil. L observed that some OF the
best citizens of the county were oppos-
ed to prohibition, men of good judg-
ment, of philanthropic sympathies, OF
correct, sober lives. The leader of the
antics exemplifies this fact. Their is
not in Lafayette county q stronger,
clearer mind, q man of more consistent
life, q man who wishes better to his
fellows thar Mr.. Shewalter. To him
belongs the chief responsibility of di-
viding the vote of the good people OF
Lafayette county. OF metaphysical
tendencies, disposed to hair-spun theo-
rIes, he succeeded in convincing the
people that the very citadel of liberty
was in danger; that the goddess had
absolutely intrenched herself in Baehr's
Cave, or Hoffmsn's cellar, or Silver
mans corner; that she had made for
herself . rampant OF beer kegs and
whisky barrels, and had sent him forth
as her apostle to rally the people to the
forlorn hope OF saving her from threat
ened capture, Imprisonment and death.
Well NAV we exclaim with the French
martyress to freedom. as on her way
to the ~guillotiue she cried, ooh, Liber-
ty! What crimes are committed in thy
nameW
l am sure that Mr.. Shewalter was
honest. l am also sure that probably
one-half of the adverse vote was due to
his reasoning. Men said. "We cannot
surrender u liberty, and if the saloon
is her palace, we must keep the .sa-
LOOM" For myself, John Stuart Mil,
nor any other infidel, or Christian, a
convince me that human liberty de-
mands the continued reign OF alcohol.
l sigh as | remember the many victims
of the still that my w eyes have seen
Keeling along the streets of Lexington.
They were there when | first became a
citizen, in January, 1866. The MOURN
full procession kept up as long as l was
there to witness it.. As IN by one
they died in the doorways, or shot
themselves, or lay down on beds, with
broken-hearted wives and haggard
children around to weep their delirious
departure, others have come on from
the recruiting stations to fill their
places, 80 that the line was full when |
left, in August, 1886. Now it is to 60
on indeti nitely longer! What father
is to join il next? What husband?
What brother? What son? | shudder
as l think of it; and L thank God that
there were so many brave, good men,
who tried this year, though in vain, to
halt and reverse this marching to de-
structiOn.
But g truce to this sad subject. l
saw, on the cars to-day, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lushbaugh, who were returning to
their home, in Stanton, from their
visit to Lexington. Ii you could have
heard how feelingly Mrs. Lushbaugh
spoke of the delights of their stay, of
her great and undiminlshed love for
your people, of her wish and hope yet
to live and die and be buried within
the hsllowed precincts of dear old
Lexington, and could have seen MIR.
Lushbaugh's approving smiles, and
could have caught my tervent amens,
yon would have thought that it was a
genuine Methodist ioYe-feast, when
Sister L. was telling her experience,
and we were in hearty sympathy.
THE BRIDE room may forget the bride
Was made his welded wife yestreen;
The monarch may forget the crown
That On his head an hour has been;
The mother may forget the child
That smiles sac sWeetiy on Eer knee;
But I'll remember thee, Glencaifh,
And ~ that thou hast done for me-"
Tell Jake Conner that | have just
returned from Baltimore, and l
am not surprised at the great, glorious
fellow he is, since | have seen those
with whom he was raised. Tell him
that Baltimore built Eel TOM thousand
new houses, as shown by the registered
permits, during the year 1886, and that
more are thought to have gone up this
year. Tell the good people of Lexing-
ton and Lafayette county that Baiti-
more is the home and the seal of nan-
ufactUre Of the liniment which so
many of them use. that it is called ST.
Jacobs Oil in honor OF your worthy
recorder, and that every bottle contains
a faithful likeness OF him as a proof Of
its genuineness. Faithfully yours,
ia. QUARLEs,
Communications from DIR. Quarles
are always welcome. We may differ
from him, and in this instance we dc
SO, but We cOncede his honesty of pur-